A DISGUISE THAT FAILED.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14836, 29 November 1913, Page 11

A DISGUISE THAT FAILED.

Kansas City was convulsed with laughter lately (the "Chronicle" says), over the experiences of two detectives, who, attired in the latest feminine fashions, attempted to capture a notorious purse snatcher. The detectives, Edgar Wilson and Louis Morley, are both small men, and this gave them tho idea of disguising themselves. In tight skirts, satin shoes, eilk hose, and small velvet hats with rakish aigrettes, they took up a .position at a car stopping place, and it was not long before a negro slouching down the street seized Wilson's silver mesh purse and fled. The detectives produced revolvers, and called upon the to halt, but when they attempted to pursue their tight skirts proved their undoing. After etumbling over the cobble stones in their unaccustomed garb for some fifty yards they abandoned the pursuit. Ther stopped at the first lodging-house they came to in the hopes of getting into male attire once more, but the proprietor, believing that they were burglars, locked them in a room and telephoned for tho police. The first policeman who arrived declined to believe their story, and it was not until a sergeant had been summoned to identify them that they were released.